US20140358004A1 - Simultaneous ultrasonic viewing of 3d volume from multiple directions - Google Patents

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US20140358004A1
US20140358004A1 US14/372,029 US201314372029A US2014358004A1 US 20140358004 A1 US20140358004 A1 US 20140358004A1 US 201314372029 A US201314372029 A US 201314372029A US 2014358004 A1 US2014358004 A1 US 2014358004A1
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  • This invention relates to medical diagnostic ultrasound systems and, in particular, to ultrasonic imaging systems which display a 3D volume in simultaneous views from multiple directions.
  • Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system have traditionally been used to image a plane of the body in real time.
  • a probe with a one dimensional (1D) array transducer or mechanically swept single element transducer can be operated to repeatedly scan a plane of the body to produce real time image sequences for live display of the anatomy.
  • Recently two dimensional (2D) array transducers and mechanically swept 1D arrays have been developed for scanning a volumetric region of the body.
  • Such probes can be used to produce three dimensional (3D) images of the volume being scanning, also in real time.
  • a display technique commonly used for 3D display of ultrasonically scanned volumes is called kinetic parallax, in which a 3D data set of the volume is rendered from a series of different viewing directions.
  • the volume rendering processor renders the volume in a newly selected viewing direction and the progression of different directions gives the appearance of a 3D volume moving on the display screen.
  • Individual planes can be selected from a three dimensional data set for viewing, a technique known as multiplanar reconstruction (MPR).
  • MPR multiplanar reconstruction
  • ROI volumetric region of interest
  • a diagnostic ultrasound system which enables a clinician to view a volume from multiple external viewing perspectives at the same time.
  • the manipulation is applied to the second view so that both views are changed in unison, as the clinician would expect the views to change if both were altered in the same way. Either or both views can also be interrogated by MPR viewing.
  • a system of the present invention is particularly useful for guiding an invasive device such as a needle or a catheter inside the body.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates in block diagram form an ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows a cubic ROI and two different viewing orientations.
  • FIGS. 3 a - 3 d illustrate simultaneous changes of two viewing orientations of the cubic ROI of FIG. 2 by manipulation of one of the views.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates two simultaneous views of the cubic ROI of FIG. 2 from orthogonal viewing orientations.
  • FIGS. 5 a - 5 c illustrate simultaneous views from different directions of a volumetric ROI including a heart valve.
  • FIGS. 6 a - 6 c illustrate simultaneous views of a catheter procedure from orthogonal viewing directions.
  • An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention is shown in block diagram form.
  • An ultrasound probe 10 capable of three dimensional imaging includes a two dimensional array transducer 12 which transmits electronically steered and focused beams over a volumetric region and receives single or multiple receive beams in response to each transmit beam.
  • Groups of adjacent transducer elements referred to as “patches” or “subarrays” are integrally operated by a microbeamformer ( ⁇ BF) in the probe 12 , which performs partial beamforming of received echo signals and thereby reduces the number of conductors in the cable between the probe and the main system.
  • ⁇ BF microbeamformer
  • the transmit beam characteristics of the array are controlled by a beam transmitter 16 , which causes the apodized aperture elements of the array to emit a focused beam of the desired breadth in a desired direction through a volumetric region of the body. Transmit pulses are coupled from the beam transmitter 16 to the elements of the array by means of a transmit/receive switch 14 .
  • the echo signals received by the array elements and microbeamformer in response to a transmit beam are coupled to a system beamformer 18 , where the partially beamformed echo signals from the microbeamformer are processed to form fully beamformed single or multiple receive beams in response to a transmit beam.
  • a suitable beamformer for this purpose is described in the aforementioned Savord '032 patent.
  • the receive beams formed by the beamformer 18 are coupled to a signal processor 26 which performs functions such as filtering and quadrature demodulation.
  • the echo signals of the processed receive beams are coupled to a Doppler processor 30 and/or a B mode processor 24 .
  • the Doppler processor 30 processes the echo information into Doppler power or velocity information signals.
  • For B mode imaging the receive beam echoes are envelope detected and the signals logarithmically compressed to a suitable dynamic range by the B mode processor 24 .
  • the echo and Doppler signals from the scanned volumetric region are processed to form one or more 3D image datasets which are stored in a 3D image dataset buffer 32 .
  • the 3D image data may be processed for display in several ways. One way is to produce multiple 2D planes of the volume.
  • FIGS. 2-4 A clear understanding of manipulation of simultaneous views of a 3D ROI may be had with reference to FIGS. 2-4 .
  • a cubic ROI 52 located in a volumetric region 50 is used for clarity of illustration.
  • the cubic ROI 52 has a front face F, a top face T, side faces S 1 and S 2 , and back (B) and bottom (Z) faces, the latter three not visible in FIG. 2 .
  • the 3D ROI 52 has two passageways extending from the front face to the back face, one drawn as a circular passageway 54 and the other drawn as a hexagonal passageway 56 .
  • Two viewing directions V 1 and V 2 are also shown in FIG. 2 , which view the 3D ROI from the front F and the back B, respectively.
  • FIGS. 3 a - 4 show simultaneous 3D views of the 3D ROI formed by simultaneous operation of volume renderer1 and volume renderer2 in accordance with the principles of the present invention.
  • the two 3D views are displayed to the clinician simultaneously on the display 40 as illustrated in these drawings.
  • Volume renderer1 renders the 3D ROI as viewed looking toward the front face F
  • volume renderer2 renders the 3D ROI as viewed looking toward the back face B.
  • the viewing directions used for rendering are thus opposed to each other by 180°.
  • the viewing direction is slightly to the right of and above the front face of the 3D ROI so that the top T and side S 1 faces can be seen.
  • the viewing direction is slightly to the left of and above the back face B so that the side S 1 and top T faces can also be seen in this view.
  • Slight variation from exactly 180° views can be used as shown in FIG. 3 a , or both views can be exactly 180° in opposition as shown in FIG. 4 .
  • FIG. 3 a illustrates, the passageways 54 , 56 extending through the 3D ROI are seen on the right side of the front face F and on the left side of the back face B as a clinician would expect to see them.
  • the clinician has manipulated a control of the user interface such as a trackball on the control panel 20 or a softkey control on the display screen to rotate the 3D ROI 62 on the left side of the display slightly to the left as indicated by arrow 67 .
  • the clinician has also manipulated a user control to tilt the 3D ROI slightly downward as indicated by arrow 66 so that more of the top face T can be seen.
  • the clinician manipulates the left 3D ROI 62 in this way, the 3D ROI view 64 on the right moves in correspondence, as if the clinician manipulated the right view to move in the same way.
  • the right view 64 from the back of the 3D ROI rotates the same amount to the left as indicated by the arrow 69 and tilts upward by the same amount (arrow 68 ) as the tilt of the left 3D ROI view, causing more of the bottom face Z to be visible.
  • the clinician has the sense of moving one 3D ROI with the control adjustments and seeing the resulting change in both views of the front and back of the 3D ROI as if clinician were seeing the same ROI and its motion from two different views.
  • FIG. 3 c illustrates the front and back 3D ROI views 62 and 64 after the clinician has rotated the ROI to the right (as indicated by arrows 72 and 74 ) and tilted the front view of the ROI up (as indicated by arrows 70 ) so that the bottom face Z is visible.
  • the back view 64 moves in a corresponding manner.
  • the upward tilt 70 of the ROI as seen from the front is seen as a downward tilt from the back as indicated by arrow 71 , causing the top face T to be more visible from the back.
  • Both the left and right views move in unison as the clinician adjusts the orientation of one of the views.
  • FIG. 3 d illustrates the result of rotating the left view to tilt the right side of the 3D ROI 62 downward.
  • the rear view 64 of the 3D ROI tilts down on the left side as indicated by arrow 78 .
  • the same result can be obtained by tilting the right view 64 downward on the left side, which causes the corresponding effect of tilting the right side of view 62 down to the right.
  • moving the ROI in one of the views causes the same movement of the other view, which is seen from the different viewing orientation.
  • FIG. 4 shows two views of a 3D ROI, with the left view 80 looking at the 3D ROI from the front face F and the right view 82 looking at the 3D ROI from the side face S.
  • manipulating one of the views of the 3D ROI will cause the same motion of the 3D ROI in the other view but as seen from a different viewpoint.
  • the two views of the 3D ROI can thus be at a 180° angle to each other as shown in FIGS. 3 a - 3 d, or at a 90° angle to each other as shown in FIG. 4 , or at any other intermediate angle between the views, e.g., between 0° and 180°.
  • FIGS. 5 a - 5 c illustrate a clinical application of an ultrasound system of the present invention.
  • a catheter 100 has been threaded into an atrium 110 of a heart in preparation for passage through a mitral or tricuspid valve 94 and into a ventricle 112 .
  • the heart valve 94 is seen to be attached to the myocardial walls 90 and 92 on opposite sides of the heart. Extending from the valve leaflets in the ventricle are chordate tendineae 104 , cord-like tendons that attach the valve leaflets to papillary muscles in the ventricle.
  • An ultrasound system of the present invention is used to guide the catheter procedure by imaging the heart as illustrated in FIG.
  • this 3D ROI extends into the heart chambers on both sides of the valve and includes the valve through which the catheter 100 is to be inserted.
  • the 3D ROI is viewed simultaneously from both the face in the atrium 110 and the face in the ventricle as shown in FIGS. 5 b and 5 c .
  • the clinician can see the catheter 100 ′ as it approaches the slits 102 between the valve leaflets.
  • 5 c views the slits 102 of the valve leaflets through which the catheter will soon appear, and the chordate tendineae 104 extending back from the valve leaflets.
  • FIGS. 6 a - 6 c illustrate another example of a clinical procedure performed with an ultrasound system of the present invention.
  • the 3D ROI is viewed in two orthogonal viewing directions V 1 and V 2 .
  • a catheter 120 is being guided to perform a clinical procedure on a spot 124 on the wall of the myocardium 90 of a heart.
  • a 3D ROI is delineated as shown by outline 122 in FIG. 6 a , which includes the catheter 120 , the spot 124 which is to be treated, and the far side 126 of the heart chamber in which the procedure is to be performed.
  • This 3D ROI 122 is viewed in two orthogonal viewing directions, V 1 as shown in FIG. 6 a , and in a second direction looking into the plane of the FIG.
  • FIG. 6 b illustrates the 3D ROI 122 as viewed from direction V 1 .
  • the catheter 120 can be axially seen alongside the wall 90 of the myocardium and approaching the far end 126 of the heart chamber in which the catheter is located.
  • the orthogonal V2 view is shown in FIG. 6 c .
  • the catheter 120 is seen approaching point 124 at which the procedure is to be performed and is in an orientation approximately parallel to the heart wall 90 .
  • the two orthogonal views give the clinician a sense of how the catheter is proceeding along the heart wall, its spacing from the heart wall, and how much further the catheter needs to be extended to reach the point 124 at which the procedure is to be performed.

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